This week we are talking to our friend Marc Alan Schelske about the second edition of his book Journaling for Spiritual Growth.

Marc is a thinker and speaker who has served as a full-time pastor since 1995 and is currently the teaching elder of Bridge City Community Church in Portland, Oregon. He also hosts The Apprenticeship Way podcast and is the author of The Wisdom of Your Heart and Discovering Your Authentic Core Values. “In my writing, I focus on what it takes to nurture a healthy inner life, something found at the intersection of grace and growth,” Marc says. “I write and speak to help people find belonging, redemption, and growth as they discover the life God has designed for them.”

https://marcalanschelske.com/

Friends, welcome once again.

This week, we're talking to Elle Dowd.

Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor.She is currently PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising.

She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available now in print, e-book, or audiobook.

To get in touch with Elle and to keep up with updates, you can visit their website www.elledowd.com and subscribe to their newsletter.

You can also see her online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry

or follow her on Twitter/SnapChat/Insta @hownowbrowndowd

or on TikTok @elledowdministry and @ELCAYoungAdults

And order their book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist here https://bit.ly/2YICjBf

Or download the audiobook here https://christianaudio.com/baptized-tear-gas-elle-dowd-audiobook-download

Hello friends!

This week, we are talking to a new friend, Ell.

Ell is a co-host for The Word in Black and Red podcast, a member of the IWW, and a board member at her church. She was raised Presbyterian, sent to catholic school as an atheist, and then graduated with a BA in anthropology and classics. She’s worked in various industries and is a passionate advocate of intersectional workers rights and building community solidarity.TWIBAR